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Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

@Propro@Jinny

You both need to chill out, and maybe Propro can cool it with the ice puns?

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

so you liked it?

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

Damian post is go

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

The Bat-Cave

Three days.

Three days of constant vigilance. Three days of non-stop fighting against what seemed like every mugger, miscreant and madman in existence. Three days as Gotham's only real protector.

Three days without his father.

True, once that would hardly have registered to Damian in the least. He'd spent nine years with no knowledge of his father at all besides occasional stories from his mother often told in between rounds of vicious combat training that had passed for bonding between them. From those he had come to Gotham expecting a living legend, a stern shadow that haunted the night striking fear into the hearts of the wicked, a peerless warrior who was always more myth than man.

The truth had been considerably more complex. Still Damian had fought and struggled to understand his father's world, to become part of it. Even after two years he was still unsure of his place in it, but he had come to accept that what they did was necessary or even vital to the survival of Gotham, maybe to the survival of the world itself. The world needed Batman and Batman needed Robin. Now that Batman was missing it stood to reason that the world would need Robin at least twice as much. So he had been fighting without sleeping and barely eating for just about three days, doing what he could to keep control of Gotham's streets by himself. Only the League of Assassin's training kept him on his feet at this point, but Damian was holding the city together. at least that was what he told himself he was doing. If each punch he threw and each criminal he took off the streets also happened to distract him from a certain level of gnawing anxiety and even...concern(?) over his father's disappearance, well Damian was hardly about to acknowledge it.

After all, he was Damian Wayne, Son of the Bat, Grandson of the Demon! He needed no one and absolutely didn't miss his father and he certainly wasn't worried about him. Such concerns were beneath him, it was only the future stability of Gotham he was concerned for and even then he was more than capable of keeping the city stable by himself. So when Pennyworth initiated the Empty Nest he took it in with the casual indifference that he used for most situations. If he didn't complain about needlessly calling in the others when he already had things handled like he normally would, well it was clearly because he had more important things to worry about. Like rumors that there was a fake Robin in his city! A girl Robin at that! Just because he'd been too busy keeping the city together to deal with it himself didn't mean he would stand for such an outrageous insult to the mantle that he'd earned!

The others returning gave Damian the perfect opening to go deal with the copycat Robin and skip out on having to play nice and socialize with whoever Protocol Swarm dragged in from the shadows. So by the time Grayson had arrived Damian had already gotten suited up and ready to head out to find his unwelcome copycat.

He gave Grayson a brief nod of acknowledgement as he passed toward one of the many hidden exits. "Grayson. If nothing else the first to arrive is one of the least incompetent. I'm sure you'll call for me when I'm inevitably needed to rescue you but I've no time for your usual inane banter. Now you're here, there's a personal matter I need to go deal with." Violently his tone and posture implied, though with Damian it hardly needed implying.

No, with Damian violence was almost always a matter of course.

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Streets of Gotham

It hadn't taken long to pick up her trail. The would-be Girl Wonder moved and fought through the city with all the stealth of an exploding fireworks factory. Decent for a complete amateur, Damian would concede that much. For one thing she hadn't managed to get herself killed. Yet. But everything about her was an insult to him. Her combat technique was sloppy and unrefined, her quips were ill-timed and left her prone to distraction and then there was the costume! Even on the occasions when he'd sneaked out in a modified version of one of Drake's old outfits it had been less of a disgrace than that abomination to the R this girl was wearing.

So he took his opportunity, dropped down as silently as only a boy raised his whole life among assassins and The Batman could into the shadows of an alley behind her and announced himself with the purposefully audible hiss of his sword being partially drawn from its' scabbard. Damian was extremely fond of the sword, even if he'd had to dig it up from where he'd buried it outside the cave and sneak it on during his patrols these last few nights. It had belonged to Grandfather and was allegedly made of true Damascus steel, certainly seemed sharp and durable enough to be true and possessed of the correct patterning. In any case he followed it up with his best imitation of his father's scowl, the one that occasionally made criminals surrender all on its' own. He was about to teach this insolent girl what a real Robin was like.

"Take off that disgusting mockery of a Halloween costume before I cut if off you myself! Then go home and stay off of my streets!"

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

@Roosan @Ruby

So...what do I do? Do I skip forward in time?

Also I'm not a huge fan of being controlled, but I'll definitely let it slide in the interest of getting things going.

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

As a small note for everyone, I personally prefer to carve out a slightly different version of the characters rather than stick doggedly to what has been established in the canon.

@Roosan

That definitely makes Damian much easier to play, for sure.

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

Given all these young people who don't want to play his games, Eddie will probably weep with relief when Bruce returns.

@Roosan

I feel like Damian might actually get kind of into it once Eddie forces or goads him into going along with it, though he'd be complaining the entire time.

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

@Roosan

Really looking forward to seeing what kind of interactions develop between Damian and Riddler. I'm imagining hilarity.

"Here's the game my dear young birdbrain! I've coerced the assistance of some charming civilian assistants for our alleged 'battle' of wits this evening. For every one of my puzzles your pitiful prepubescent brain manages to stumble through without dying, I will graciously release one of them! But if you fail to find your way through my gauntlet by the stroke of midnight I'll-"

"-tt- Not interested."

"-send one of them to an agonizing...WHAT!? YOU CAN'T DO THAT! INNOCENT LIVES ARE ON THE LINE!"

"Weighed against the cost of listening to your incessant nattering all evening? I'm certain they're hardly worth it."

"THAT'S NOT HOW THIS WORKS!"

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<Snipped quote by Ruby>

That's actually exactly how I imagined things going with the game starting with a Nightwing/Talia encounter. Hahaha, great minds I guess.

<Snipped quote by Roosan>

I really like that idea. Though if I get my way, Dick will be taking on the cowl again to maintain the presence of a Batman. That said, I imagine Eddie would be one of the first to realize that this Batman and his Batman aren't the same person.

<Snipped quote by Ruby>

"How could they possibly pass up on my genius! Are these simpleton avian mockeries so daft as to completely miss the greatest intellectual threat to their entire operation?! Yes, why, that's the only explanation! This so called 'Court of Owls' simply lack the cognitive depth to recognize my brilliant mind and only focus on the brute, boorish strength of those insipid so-called heroes. They will rue the day they made the mistake of ignoring ME! THE RIDDLER!"

@ProPro

Not gonna lie, from my sickbed this made me laugh so hard I hurt myself! Pain was worth it. Also Graysonbats with Damian is best Dynamic Duo.

Gotham City: Shadow of the Bat

If Hope ever throws up the signal and the kids show up she's probably gonna just give up right then and there

@Fabricant451

It'll be even better because there's a chance Damian responds to the signal dressed like

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